Thursday Morning Rockpile: RAM failure

by Rox Girl on Apr 24, 2008 8:15 AM MDT in Rockpile

Maybe since the SBN blog network was down last night, I can pretend that game didn't exist. Sigh, probably not. At any rate, you have my apologies for the site's issues, but the Rockies will have to do their own apologizing to all of us for whatever it is that's going on with the pen right now. According to the techies, this was what happened to Purple Row last night:

The summary cause of the outage was that we experienced a major
hardware failure. Through a brute force process of elimination, we
determined that the RAM (memory) we received in the recent upgrade was
"bad". That type of problem can cause unusual, unexplained errors in
software that makes great use of RAM and that is exactly what happened
to us. It sounds like an easy, quick problem to solve, but "bad" RAM
is so rarely the first explanation of an outage like this, that it
took us awhile to go through the process of confirming it and finally
making hardware changes to deal with it. Basically, this was a worst
case scenario event.

No, a worst case scenario event is having two core players you just locked into multi-year contracts -players you thought would develop into stars over the coming seasons- suddenly turn into duds. The Rox equivalent of Cinderella losing her magic carriage and a shoe.

This midnight pumpkin scenario hasn't happened, and it's highly unlikely to happen, but late April/early May is high time for premature panic. The fix for Tulo at least will probably prove to be in retrospect just and easy and quick as the fix to the hardware here at Purple Row and I'm hoping last night's homerun was a sign that it's already happened. I'm also hoping the same easiness is true of fixing Corpas, but pitchers always scare me.

At the very least, Manny's probably getting bumped out of his role for a little while to try and get back on track. But that means Brian Fuentes, who of late has been just about as ineffective in the eighth inning as Corpas has been in the ninth, takes back the closer job. At least we have a knight in shining armor on the way.

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The Tulo fix

I actually tried to post this comment yesterday a couple of times, but the bad RAM prevented it.

Tulo & Hunter Pence had similar outstanding rookie seasons, Pence’s being injury-shortened. To start this season, they were in near-identical sophomore slumps, both batting in the .160s.

About a week ago, Pence was benched for a game, then put back in the lineup, but in the 7 spot instead of his usual 2 spot. He’s been blasting the ball ever since, raising his average 80+ points, hitting his first HR and generally back to last-year’s heights.

I was going to suggest Hurdle put Tulo back in, but in the 7th spot. Really. But for the bad RAM, I could’ve claimed to be really smart.

Tulo longterm will not be a problem. He’ll recover, but should remain in the 7th slot for now.

As for Corpas, ??? My other team, the Astros, has Jose Valverde, who started out worse than Corpas, but claims to have righted himself. Maybe we should just swap them under the “change of scenery” theory. See Lidge, Brad, currently with an 0.00 ERA for the Phils.

My daughter says she wants to marry Taylor Bucholz.
But I'm not sure about the beard.

by maris61 on Apr 24, 2008 8:40 AM MDT reply actions

No way

I’ll take Corpas any day of the week.

The D-Backs did the right thing selling him at his highest point of value.

by MADness on Apr 24, 2008 7:49 PM MDT up reply actions

Umm...

This post reads as if there was a game last night. I must be missing something. The site outage was clearly planned to coincide with an off-day. I don’t remember any game. I clearly remember being outside, smelling flowers and chasing butterflies underneath rainbows. Ah, happy memories.

by dogs on Apr 24, 2008 8:54 AM MDT reply actions

Pen

The Rockies went from one of the best bullpens to one falling apart after that 22 inning game. The starters and Hurdle haven’t helped anyone of those guys out until yesterday when Cookie went 8. No day off until the 12 isnt going to help also. The pitching staff has those two young guys that will go 6 if you are lucky. The pen is wore out and if they dont get rested up we will see the Rockies of the past few years where the offense keep them in the game but not the div. race.

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by Durango on Apr 25, 2008 8:38 AM MDT reply actions